Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : food safety, consumerism, food snobbery, ingredients, mystery meat, meat, monkeys, news, health, advice, politics, Marion Nestle , add a commentSeriously, kids, was it International “Make Tracy Happy to Avoid Mystery Meat” Week and nobody told me? I just kept finding more and more news stories and blog posts to that effect. Also, on a metaphorical level, the TracyFood comment spam just kept pouring in — I broke 16,000 17,000 deleted comments over the weekend (number edited on Sunday morning after I started the post on Friday night). Woo? But seriously, all the scary meat news you can read:
22 September: Sucks to be a factory-farmed pig.
Last Monday, U.S. Food Policy alerted me to a news report about pig abuse at factory farms. The official Associated Press news piece is here, along with a video which I cannot bring myself to watch. You can click through to the full piece without being forced to watch the video, but (more…)
Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, not even vegetarian, history, meat, politics, eating, vegetarian, people , 1 comment so farI need your help.
Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.
Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill — but it’s not true. Hitler was no more vegetarian than I am, which is to say he was maybe a picky meat eater, but he definitely ate the flesh of dead animals. There is plenty of documentation of this fact (more on that in a bit). Please, everybody spread this idea far and wide, because I am entirely sick of hearing people snicker about the idea of a genocidal maniac who wouldn’t eat anything that involved killing animals.
I’m bringing this up now because (more…)
Monkey Monday: random RSS recipes edition 21 July 2008 6:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : meat, random, monkeys, recipes, people, cooking , add a commentI remembered what else I meant to post about on Saturday night! The wonderful randomness that my RSS feeds bring me, let me share them with you!
First, there was Warren Ellis on cooking steak (hint: “Man cook meat with fire.”) That was July 7. A day later, he clarified his position somewhat: (more…)
Monkey Monday: books, chocolate, and mushrooms 21 April 2008 6:18 pm
Posted by Tracy in : meat, geekery, not even vegetarian, vegan, vegetarian, friends, books, cooking , 3 commentsThis week in Tracy’s culinary schizophrenia: thanks to the best library hold request coincidence ever, I’m currently borrowing and thoroughly enjoying both The River Cottage Meat Book and Veganomicon. To my ever-loving surprise, they have not mutually annihilated, and I am very happy to recommend them both. Highly. Oh, and by the way, I first learned about The River Cottage Meat Book by reading The Ethics of What We Eat
Monkey Monday: back to randomness. 14 April 2008 9:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : monkeys, travel, meat, not even vegetarian, Morning Glory, news, friends, books, meta, restaurants , 2 commentsNews from my browser tabs, off the top of my head, and beyond:
Did you hear that the only female head waiter at Per Se wrote a book about the experience? From that article, it sounds like it could be fun if you’re into that whole behind-the-scenes-at-restaurants thing. Especially if you’re curious about super-extreme high end fine dining.
But maybe you’re more in the mood for (more…)
